GO:ROCK:SOUND BITES.FOUR leading lights from the new wave of American heavy metal are lined up for a British tour this summer. The quartet - Killswitch Engage, Chimaira, Shadows Fall and God Forbid - will play a dozen dates, including Wolverhampton's Civic Hall on June 12 (tickets 01902 552121) and Nottingham's Rock City on June 14 (0115 9412544). THE GuilFest 2004 festival, staged in the grounds of Guildford's Stoke stoke n. A unit of kinematic viscosity equal to that of a fluid with a viscosity of one poise and a density of one gram per milliliter. stoke Park, have confirmed their three main-stage headliners with Blondie on Friday, July 16, Simple Minds on Saturday, 17 and UB40 on Sunday, 18. Adult tickets are pounds 32 per day or pounds 70 for the weekend (pounds 80 with camping) with concessions for under-16s and free entry for accompanied under-10s and full details are available from www.guilfest.co.uk or 01483 454159. THE bill for this year's Download Festival The Download Festival is a three day music festival held annually at the spiritual home of rock music in England: Donington Park (which hosted the Monsters of Rock Festivals between 1980 and 1996, and 2002's Ozzfest). at Castle Donington Not to be confused with Donnington Castle. is fast taking shape with another 13 bands named as support for headliners Metallica and Linkin Park on June 5-6. Slayer, Sum 41, Cradle Of Filth, Monster Magnet, Godsmack, Hatebreed, Damage Plan, Brides Of Destruction, Akercocke, Million Dead, Dillinger, Escape Plan, Ill Nino and Taking Back Sunday will join the already confirmed Korn, Iggy & The Stooges, Slipknot and The Hives. Tickets are pounds 45 a day of pounds 80 for the weekend (pounds 95 with camping) and full details are available from www.downloadfestival.co.uk NELLY FURTADO  This page is currently protected from editing until disputes have been resolved. , who could reasonably claim to have blazed the trail
for the current crop of female singer-songwriters, plays the NIA Academy
on Wednesday, June 30. Tickets are pounds 22.50 each from
www.necgroup.co.uk or 0870 909 4144.
DEEP PURPLE, Peter Frampton and Thunder team up on a triple bill at the NEC (NEC Corporation, Tokyo, www.nec.com, www.necus.com) An electronics conglomerate known in the U.S. for its monitors. In Japan, it had the lion's share of the PC market until the late 1990s (see PC 98). NEC was founded in Tokyo in 1899 as Nippon Electric Company, Ltd. Arena on Friday, November 12 with other guests to be confirmed. Tickets are pounds 29.50 apiece from www.necgroup.co.uk or 0870 909 4133. Trivia fact: Frampton Comes Alive, which topped the British charts for 17 weeks, is still be best-selling live album of all time with sales in excess of 17 million copies. SHERYL CROW, fresh from the success of her double-platinum greatest hits set, has lined up three British dates for this summer, playing the NEC Arena on Thursday, June 24. Tickets are pounds 24.00 apiece from www.necgroup.co.uk or 0870 909 4133. |
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